OPINION

How the Motlanthe commission of inquiry shot itself in the foot

The seven-member commission of inquiry into the August 1 disturbances wound up its work last week and presented the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday, three m...

By Tawanda Majoni | Published: 02 December 2018

EDUCATION

Professor Makhurane dies

Founding National University of Science and Technology (Nust) vice-chancellor Professor Phineas Makhurane has died.He was 79.Makhurane succumbed to diabetes at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo yesterday...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

OPINION

Chamisa - PFeee

Jokes have always been made on whether the leadership of the MDC want to take over the running of the country or that they would rather remain opposition.They attribute this to the spectacular own goa...

By Dr Stop IT | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Mystery surrounds killing report

President Emmerson Mnangagwa did not receive the report into the August 1 killings of protesters by soldiers yesterday as scheduled as the government and the panel investigating the violence gave cont...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Mphoko in $94 million headache

FORMER vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko's Botswana-based business partners are demanding US$94 million for them to allow him to take over control of supermarket giant Choppies' local operations.Mphok...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe seeks funds to improve power infrastructure

Zimbabwe requires $1,2 billion to finance new power projects and repair ageing infrastructure, a report by the African Development Bank (AfDB) has shown.Several of the country's thermal power stations...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Army killings shock details

Fresh harrowing evidence of people shot by the army during the August 1 protests in Harare has surfaced amid claims that the commission set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored the majority of t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa calls for stiffer penalties

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called on Parliament to enact legislation to criminalise the destruction of wetlands and the indiscriminate cutting-down of trees.Speaking in Norton where he plante...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zifa, Steward bank under probe

POLICE are investigating how $200 000 was illegally moved from a Zifa Steward Bank account at a time funds had been attached by the Sheriff of the High Court on behalf of the association's creditors.T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe's Smelly legacy of patronage

Smelly Dube, a businesswoman from Midlands province who was once close to former president Robert Mugabe's family, has been throwing a stink over a controversial housing project that is now giving the...

By BRENNA MATENDERE | Published: 02 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimra targets $4,3 billion revenue

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is targeting to collect $4,3 billion in gross revenue by year-end, up 8% compared to what was achieved in 2017, an official has said.Last year, the actual gross ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

OPINION

Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy

Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...

By Jonathan N Moyo | Published: 02 December 2018

OPINION

Looking 'through' the MDC Alliance protest

After watching Thursday's MDC demonstration, I had a seminal tête-à-tête with a comrade in the academic struggle. We decided that we should focus on protests as political strategies, inquiring thei...

By Micheal Mhlanga | Published: 02 December 2018

OPINION

Devolution: Laying ground for provincial economies

The 2019 Budget Statement allocates US$310 million for provincial and local tiers.This fulfils our promise to the electorate to uphold and implement Chapter 14 of our Constitution, which enjoins Gover...

By E D Mnangagwa | Published: 02 December 2018

OPINION

Chamisa hypocrisy exposes lack of political, ideological depth

A video circulating on social media of MDC officials, Murisi Zwizwai and Charlton Hwende publicly confronting, accusing and humiliating MDC co-vice-president, Engineer Elias Mudzuri for attending a me...

By Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Motlanthe commission yet to finalise report

THE Commission of Inquiry into the 1 August 2018 Post-Election Violence is compiling its final report containing its findings, which will be handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa within the stip...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo-Victoria Falls road rehab to start in 2020

THE rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway to be funded by the Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) and the Government at an estimated cost of $350 million is expected to...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Government cracks whip on errant manufacturers

THE Government is considering taking stern measures against unscrupulous manufacturers that increase prices of their products despite being allocated foreign currency by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2018

POLITICS

Anti-Mnangagwa demonstration ban challenged in court

The High Court has agreed to hear arguments challenging police ban of a demonstration by war veterans against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for failing to honour other monetary promises da...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 December 2018

POLITICS

Star FM radio presenter 'roast' Mthuli Ncube

Permanent Secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Nick Mangwana said Star FM radio presenter Linda Mhuriro will not be fired for "roasting" Finance minister Mthuli Ncube during ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 December 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa chickens out of firing Mudzuri

The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has re-assured under-fire vice president Elias Mudzuri that his position is secure even after being booed off stage by opposition supporters at a Harare rally on Thursday.Mu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mthuli Ncube makes U-turn on retrenchments

Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has now said there would be no mass layoffs of public sector workers because government has no money to bankroll retrenchment packages.He said government will now conside...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 December 2018

POLITICS

Killings inquiry in shock move

Zimbabweans reacted with surprise yesterday, to Thursday's announcement by the inquiry looking into the August 1 shootings in Harare, that it had already handed over the executive summary of its repor...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwean contractors to get mega projects

The Zimbabwean government is mulling to prioritise local construction firms on mega projects as a way of preserving scarce foreign currency.The southern African country is facing an acute shortage of ...

By Business Live | Published: 01 December 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa considered illegitimate by The West

WHEN Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the presidency following the November 2017 coup that toppled Zimbabwe's long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, he did not waste time in telling the world that his government ...

By Simukai Tinhu | Published: 30 November 2018
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